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Modern Times

Reflections on a Century of English Modernity
Herausgeber: Nava, Mica; O'Shea, Alan

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Produktbeschreibung

Confronting the contemporary poststructuralist debate from the perspective of cultural of cultural historiography, this book presents an historical study of race and ethnicity. Specifically, it provides an account, both theoretical and applied, of the combination of sexual, racial and ethnic underpinning and shaping the experiences of English men and women in various colonies in the nineteenth century. Although accessible for the student, the book will be received seriously by both theorists and historians.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780415069335
• ISBN-10: 0415069335
• Artikelnr.: 20974456

Autorenporträt

Mica Nava, Alan O¿Shea

Inhaltsangabe

1. English subjects of Modernity
Alan O'Shea 2. Modernity's disavowal: women, the city and the department store
Mica Nava 3. Sensation of the abyss: the urban poor and Modernity
John Marriott 4. Night battles: hooligan and citizen
Bill Schwarz 5. Sodomy to Salome: Camp revisions of Modernism, Modernity and Masquerade
Peter Horne 6. The mysteries and secrets of women's bodies: sexual knowledge in the first half of the twentieth century
Sally Alexander 7. Black Metropolis, White England
Bill Schwarz 8. Re
placing British music
Andrew Blake 9. What a day for a daydream: cinema, Modernity and the popular imagination in the late twentieth century
Alan O'Shea